Curt Schilling Bizarrely Asked Jake Tapper to Explain Jews to Him

Curt Schilling, former baseball hero and current right-wing nutjob and Donald Trump fanboy, was on CNN talking about a potential Senate run when he veered wildly off-topic and decided to ask Jake Tapper: Hey, what's the deal with Jews?

Jake Tapper asked Schilling to defend posting a transphobic meme as well as another meme that compared Islamic extremism to the Nazi Party. Watching Schilling try to do the mental gymnastics on that one was fascinating.

But then the interview took a particularly strange turn. Schilling decided to turn the tables on Tapper by asking him questions. Be sure to pack a bag and a snack; it's a long journey to the end of this sentence:

I would like to ask you something about—as a person who is practicing the Jewish faith, and has since you were young, I don't understand, and this is—maybe this is the amateur, non-politician in me, I don't understand how people of Jewish faith can back the Democratic Party, which over the last 50 years have been so clearly anti-Israel, so clearly anti-Jewish Israel, that it—I mean, I don't know what else would need to be done, said, or happen for people to understand that they don't, they're not—the Democratic Party is allied with Israel only because we have agreements in place that make them have to be.

In sum: Hey, what's the deal with you Jewish people supporting Democrats?

Tapper, who looked like he was holding back laughter during the question, answered as diplomatically as one could when put in such an awkward situation:

Well, I don't speak for Jews, and I don't support the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. I would imagine, just to try to answer your question, that one of the reasons many Jews are Democrats has more to do with Democrats' support for social welfare programs and that sort of thing, than it does for Israel. And I know that a lot of Jews who are strong supporters of Israel do support the Republican Party, again, I don't speak for Jews.

"That's fair," Schilling responded, acting as if this was the first time he had encountered a Jew and had the chance to ask such an inane question.

Curt Schilling could have been a hero. After he and the bloody sock pitched the Red Sox to victory in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series that would send the Sox to the World Series and their first championship since 1918, Schilling could have walked into a peaceful retirement as the hero of New England baseball.

Instead, he decided to found a now-bankrupt game studio and started spewing right-wing conspiracy theories, defending Donald Trump, and potentially running for senate against liberal stalwart Elizabeth Warren in the blue state of Massachusetts.

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